THE WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 22, 25 July 1918, Page 3

THE WEATHER

CONDITIONS IN CHRISTCHURCH l GETTING BETTER RAILWAY SERVICES STILL INTERRUPTED. CST TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHEISTCHURCH, 24ih July. The city is gradually resuming its normal wintry appearance, the thaw, as% sisted by rain showers, having effected a clearance of the snow which since Sunday had lain thickly on footpath and roadway alike. The efforts of the City Counci' workmen, with their many has-tily-improvised snow ploughs and rakes, ' have resulted in most of the streets in the inner city area being^ fairly comfortably negotiable by all classes of traffic, and pathways along which yesterday pedestrians plodded ankle deep in slush are to-day in many cases presenting once more an unbroken asphalt surface. A bitterly cold, heavy rain from the south-west is falling to-night. The railway traffic authorities cannot say anything definite yet as to when communicatnn will be restored on the I Midland line to Arthur's Pass. There is j no possibility of the express getting through to-morrow, and its chances of doing so on Saturday are regarded as very doubtful. The Little River service is still- interrupted, and the gang of workers has not been able to repair thebreach in the embankment on the line owing to the washout. No effective work will be possible, it is reported, till the waters of Lake Forsyth go down.